Ministry of Defense of Russia
What unidentified object is this? Its nature is not known, but it orbits the earth since February. The US is open -eyed.
On March 18, three Russian military satellites (Kosmos 2581, 2582 and 2583) sent an unidentified object to the orbit. So reports a.
Objects will have been thrown into a SOYUZ-2.1V rocket From the Plessetsk Cosmodrome on February 2, having launched the object more than a month later.
Satellites are now in an almost polar orbit, about 585 kilometers above Earth. They seem to do some maneuvers, IFLs reveals, which led a US defense officer to tell that the Russians were practice space attacks. However, astronomer Jonathan McDowell warns that they are not yet conclusions.
According to some experts, the purpose of satellites is to show that Rudi is able to surround and reach enemy spaceships, through “attack and defense tactics”, but it is not yet clear that this is the goal. “Russia wants to end our advantages in space And don’t worry about collateral damage, ”he added.
According to, satellites could in March be performing potential proximity operations, or making maneuvers near other objects in space.
A China It will also have been carried out of this type operations and will be developing anti-satellite missiles and directed energy attacks that use lasers or similar systems to attack other satellites, reports CNN.
The name Kosmos (or, in Portuguese, cosmos) has been used by Russia and comes from the times of the Soviet Union. It designates a wide range of military and scientific satellites since 1962.
